Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.
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I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
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The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.
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I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
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Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
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I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
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I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
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I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.
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'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
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I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
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I'm a bit of a workaholic.
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The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do.
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I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
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I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
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The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.
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I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
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I always kept myself fairly fit.
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Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
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I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O'Brien. I was like, 'What?'
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Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
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That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
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There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.
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I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.
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You can road-test relationships.